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	"abstract": "Many tasks are considered to be 'solved' in the computational linguistics literature, but the corresponding algorithms operate in ways which are radically different from human cognition. I illustrate this by coming back to the notion of semantic competence, which includes basic linguistic skills encompassing both referential phenomena and generic knowledge, in particular a) the ability to denote, b) the mastery of the lexicon, or c) the ability to model one's language use on others. Even though each of those faculties has been extensively tested individually, there is still no computational model that would account for their joint acquisition under the conditions experienced by a human. In this paper, I focus on one particular aspect of this problem: the amount of linguistic data available to the child or machine. I show that given the first competence mentioned above (a denotation function), the other two can in fact be learned from very limited data (2.8M token), reaching state-of-theart performance. I argue that both the nature of the data and the way it is presented to the system matter to acquisition.",
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	"text": "Many tasks are considered to be 'solved' in the computational linguistics literature, but the corresponding algorithms operate in ways which are radically different from human cognition. I illustrate this by coming back to the notion of semantic competence, which includes basic linguistic skills encompassing both referential phenomena and generic knowledge, in particular a) the ability to denote, b) the mastery of the lexicon, or c) the ability to model one's language use on others. Even though each of those faculties has been extensively tested individually, there is still no computational model that would account for their joint acquisition under the conditions experienced by a human. In this paper, I focus on one particular aspect of this problem: the amount of linguistic data available to the child or machine. I show that given the first competence mentioned above (a denotation function), the other two can in fact be learned from very limited data (2.8M token), reaching state-of-theart performance. I argue that both the nature of the data and the way it is presented to the system matter to acquisition.",
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	"text": "Many tasks and datasets are considered solved problems in the computational linguistics literature. However, the data, training regimes and system architectures required to obtain top performance are unrealistic from the point of view of human cognition. Thus, state-of-the-art data-driven frameworks can be considered excellent engineering solutions to particular linguistic tasks, but they are not usable as 'models' of language acquisition, and thus of limited applicability to test hypotheses about human language.",
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	"text": "This paper argues that core problems in computational linguistics should be 're-solved' -solved again -not as tasks, but as phenomena to simulate.",
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	"text": "This would involve a more careful attention to i) the type of data fed to the system; ii) the knowledge already in-built in its architecture; iii) the mode of learning implied by the training regime; iv) the specific features exploited by the learning process; and of course, v) the theoretical proposals explaining the phenomenon. Some of these desiderata have started being explored in the literature: the BlackBox NLP events, for instance, are currently fostering important discussions on the interpretability of artificial neural systems (Linzen et al., 2018 (Linzen et al., , 2019 . Still, the field remains far from satisfying all of them.",
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	"text": "The work described in the following pages is a step towards the simulation of a particular phenomenon: the acquisition of core semantic competences. Its specific focus is on data: more particularly, the type and size of the corpus a system is exposed to. As we will see, talking about input data (desideratum i. above) naturally brings in questions about learning mechanisms (ii. and iii.), and about representation (iv.) Let us first note that an NLP system is typically exposed to at least hundreds of millions of words, if not billions. In contrast, a 3-year-old US child has only observed 25M words; a Mayan child of the same age will hear as little as 5M words (Cristia et al., 2017) . In spite of the limited data they are exposed to, a child will reliably learn their language -this is referred to as the 'poverty of stimulus' in Chomsky's work. If the stimulus is poor, we have to posit the existence of extra cognitive mechanisms to compensate for the lack of explicit linguistic evidence. For human syntax, Chomsky famously advocated the existence of an innate Universal Grammar. I argue that there is an equivalent question to be asked in machine learning: indeed, the architecture (ii.) and hyperparameters (iii.) of a system, as well as the specific representation of the input data (iv.), are 'innate' features which are important to make explicit when describing a 'data-driven' system.",
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	"text": "In what follows, I investigate a particular configuration of a semantic acquisition model. Specifically, I ask whether a particular type of input, based on individual grounded entities, can make up for data sparsity. Following this hypothesis, I propose a model nicknamed EVA (Entity Vector Aggregator) 1 and compare it to the behaviour of a characterbased language model with no access to referential information. I perform a battery of tests including similarity, compatibility and acceptability judgements, as well as lexical relation categorisation, and demonstrate that when fed with the right data and the right representation, the model learns core semantic competences from as little as 2.8M words.",
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	"text": "The notion of linguistic competence was introduced by Chomsky Aspects of the theory of syntax (Chomsky, 1965) : competence is 'knowing one's language', and it must be distinguished from performance, 'using one's language'. According to Chomsky, the study of linguistics is the study of competence. The linguist should try and elucidate the underlying structure of the mental phenomenon that leads to observable performance. In syntax, competence is usually defined in terms of grammaticality. The semantic equivalent is more difficult to pinpoint, and various proposals have been made. We will focus on three major positions in this paper: semantic competence as mastery of a) the lexicon; b) reference; c) language use.",
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	"text": "1. Mastery of the lexicon: following Chomskian grammar, Katz and Fodor (1963) propose that the goals of semantics can be obtained by \"subtracting grammar from the goals of a description of a language\" (p172). According to them, this subtraction results in elements of lexical semantics, including relations such as hyponymy or antonymy, as well as word senses. Semantic competence is then the ability to say that The paint is silent is not felicitous, that The bill is large is ambiguous, or again that There are two chairs in the room entails There are at least two things in the room.",
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	"text": "2. Ability to refer: coming from formal semantics, Partee (1979) investigates the notion of a 'godly' speaker, who would have perfect ability to match words to extensions, and argues such a speaker might embody (intensional) semantic competence. She however also identifies logical issues with that notion, in particular with respect to propositional attitudes. In Partee (2014), she offers a compromise which recognises the important relation between linguistic constituents and external reality, but also admits that language users can be mistaken or simply ignorant when it comes to truththeoretic judgements.",
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	"text": "3. Distributional consistency: Kripke (1972) argues for a 'causal theory of reference', which posits that people use words in the way that they have seen other people use it. Competent usage follows from simple exposure to performance data, without assuming fully competent extensional knowledge: For instance, having heard Frege came to dinner from some speaker, a competent listener might ask Who is Frege?, having understood that Frege is a person, but being unable to identify that person in the world (see also Putnam, 1975 for a related argument). Seen from a statistical perspective, this position boils down to an idea of distributional consistency, that is, the belief that speakers model their language use on others. A notion of acceptability derives from the theory (i.e. it would be incorrect to ask What is Frege?), but in a way that is different from the felicity conditions posited by Katz and Fodor (1963) : while Katz and Fodor assume that felicity comes from the rules of the lexicon, the Kripkian account implies that it emerges from the language use following an initial reference act. This paper starts from the assumption that all three definitions should be satisfied to speak of semantic competence. That is, I will posit that we need meaning representations that allow us to denote (to satisfy 2), for which we have descriptions or referring expressions by actual language users (to satisfy 3), and over which we can learn lexical relations (to satisfy 1). To achieve this, I will hypothesise a semantics based on instances (which can be aggregated into sets in a formal semantics fashion), but represented in terms of the statistical properties of language use. I will propose a representation which satisfies both requirements in \u00a74.",
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	"text": "The input data we will work with is a set of grounded 'utterances' extracted from annotations in the Visual Genome (VG) dataset (Krishna et al., 2017) . This annotated set displays several important properties. First, it is small (around 2.8M tokens), so compatible in scale with the limited data a learner is exposed to. Second, while it does not quite correspond to the type of sentences a child might be exposed to, it has some similarities with a realistic 'early' linguistic diet: the simple image annotations can be regarded as utterances of the type Look! The dog is playing with the ball. Third, it encodes the particular representational aspects we want to investigate: it is anchored in a clear notion of grounded instances (the individual objects in an image) and corresponding language use (the human-generated captions/annotations associated with each bounding box). The VG itself consists of a set of 108,077 images annotated with 5.4M region descriptions as well as 3.8M object referents, 2 2.8M attributes and 2.3M relationships. All objects are associated with a unique identifier, meaning that we can use such identifiers as a set of object variables for the particular universe defined by the VG.",
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	"text": "I follow the methodology introduced by Kuzmenko and Herbelot (2019), who extract information about VG instances and use it to create a 'settheoretic' vector space. The example below shows a subset of the annotation for image ID 1, after some initial pre-processing of the data. I assume that each image corresponds to some 'situation', in the spirit of Young et al. (2014) . So situation 1 contains a tall brick building, identified by variable 1058508, on which we find a black sign, identified by variable 1058507. Object types are recognisable through their suffix (e.g. building.n, sign.n), attributes consist of all other one-place predicates (e.g. tall, made\|of \|bricks); and relationships consist of all two-place predicates (e.g. on). We can straightforwardly obtain shallow logical forms associated with each situation, e.g.:",
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	"text": "We see that two instances can be annotated with different degrees of granularity in the VG. The first instance above includes many more details about the physical appearance of the bear, although the second includes the relation 'has fur', which is missed by the first one. That is, we have two different 'experiences' of bears, associated with utterances which, in a realistic situation, could have come from the learner's carer ('Look at the bear next to the grass, look at its claws!') This is a typical example of the 'poverty of the stimulus' effect: the performance data associated with those instances of bear is both incomplete (the linguistic data only describes part of the bears) and inconsistent (the two descriptions are very dissimilar).",
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	"text": "In the field of computational linguistics, we often take models to be 'algorithms', independently of the data they are trained on, and often, independently from the assumptions that the algorithm is built upon. But as pointed out in the introduction to this paper, what is in the data, what is inbuilt in the algorithm, and how the data is presented to the learning process determines the extent to which one can speak of a scientific model of such or such phenomenon. Therefore, I will talk of a 'model' as a combination of a particular system / algorithm (with its specific assumptions) and a particular type of data.",
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	"text": "In what follows, in the spirit of fixing the learning mechanism as much as possible, I present three models based on very similar algorithms (variants of skip-gram language models). I however vary the data input into the system, both in size and representation.",
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	"text": "An example of such a vector space is shown on the left of Fig 1. I will refer to it as an entity matrix: each predicate is associated with a point expressed in terms of a vector basis U (so each dimension corresponds to an entity). The point is a straightforward representation of the extension of the predicate, and shows the entities that the predicate is true of. For instance, following the first row of the matrix, we find that the set of bears in our toy space is {x1, x2}.",
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	"text": "Further, the learning mechanisms involved in EVA may be too generic. We have used simple cooccurrence prediction for the acquisition of word semantics and non-linear regression/classification for task-specific competences, which goes well with claims that language can be acquired via generic cognitive functions. But the actual training regime used by those mechanisms may not be as plausible as it could be. In particular, it is unclear how much supervision is involved in the human acquisition of skills such as lexical relation recognition or acceptability judgements (see e.g. Saxton, 2000 on the amount of negative input received by children from their carer). It is for instance dubious to argue that meronymies should be learned in a supervised fashion, with the learner being explicitly told that an ear or a whisker is 'part of' a cat. This aspect will have to be investigated further before claiming plausibility of the model. Finally, the data used for our experiments is currently anchored in a visual dataset, and is therefore focused on concrete entities. Linguistic competence involves mastery of abstract vocabulary, as well as reference to 'possible worlds', which can be different from the universe we perceive. It remains to be seen how the competences acquired over purely perceptual data can be usefully brought into skills that involve abstraction and modality.",
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	"text": "I thank Ann Copestake and Katrin Erk for reading an early draft of this paper, as well as the participants to the GeCKo workshop in Barcelona for their helpful comments. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and comments. Finally, I gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan V GPU used for this research.",
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